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Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.

For everyone who thinks “Child Labor” is just something that happens in China, it’s right here folks, along with debt bondage. Such a sad cycle.

“They should not be working 12-hour days, but it’s happening here,” said Valeria Lindsay, a language arts teacher at Homestead Middle School near Miami. For the past three years, she said, almost every eighth grader in her English learner program of about 100 students was also carrying an adult workload.

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migrant workers, children, child labor, child labour, english